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Midnight Faces
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Wikipedia article
'Midnight Faces' (1926) is a silent film starring Francis X. Bushman, Jr. and Jack Perrin. The film is an "old dark house" murder mystery in the same genre as 'One Exciting Night' (1922), 'The Ghost Breaker' (1922), 'The Bat' (1926) and 'The Cat and the Canary' (1927).The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: [http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10750 'Midnight Faces']
- [http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MidnightFaces1926.html 'Midnight Faces'] at silentera.com
Critic Christopher Workman called it "a thoroughly unmemorable entry in the run of old dark house horror comedies. (Director) Cohen handles the material with an almost intentional absence of style, atmosphere and wit.... Even at less than an hour, the film drags interminably."Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 302. .
Cast
*Ralph Bushman - Lynn Claymore (credited as Francis X. Bushman Jr.)
*Jack Perrin - Richard Mason, the lawyer
*Kathryn McGuire - Mary Bronson
*Edward Peil, Sr. - Suie Chang, the Chinese stranger
*Charles Belcher - Samuel Lund
*Nora Cecil - Mrs. Lund
*Martin Turner - Trohelius Snapp, the black servant
Plot
Lynn Claymore inherits an estate in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew. His lawyer Richard Mason accompanies him to the property. A strange Chinese man is seen wandering the grounds at night, and a man in a cape is spotted skulking down the corridors by Claymore's clichd "fraidy-cat" black manservant Trohelius. Then a young woman named Mary Bronson shows up, asking to be allowed in to escape an assailant with a knife who she says was stalking her.
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